Alisa Ballard has accepted a position as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University, beginning in August 2016. She will defend her dissertation, The Actor's Consciousness in Russian Modernist Philosophy of Theater, on July 13.

Beginning this August, Emily Wang will be a member of the inaugural cohort Postdoctoral Fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. She will also be affiliated with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Michael Wachtel, professor of Slavic languages and Literatures and department chair since 2011, has been on the Princeton faculty since 1990. He is also affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature.

Dr. Henry Robert Hedrick, the first person ever to be awarded the Ph.D in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton in 1966 visits the Department. Dr. Hedricks dissertation title was "The poetry of Derzhavin". Pictured are Professor and chair Michael Wachtel, Dr. Hedrick, Professor Caryl Emerson and Professor Ellen Chances.

Kat Hill Reischl (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is delighted to be joining the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures as Assistant Professor in Fall 2014. Her areas of expertise include 20th century Russian/Soviet literature and art, the history of photography, and media theory.

Windows on Eurasia Photo Contest winners!
Photos by Linnea Paseiro '14 and Jessica Liang '15 have been selected as winners in the 2014 Window on Eurasia photo contest sponsored by the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies as part of the Office of International Programs' 6th annual International Eye Photo Contest:

Russian writer Dmitry Kuzmin, an award-winning poet, political commentator (especially in the sphere of gay rights), publisher, academic, and active translator of poetry into Russian (including the works of Princeton University’s own C. K. Williams), is visiting Princeton this spring.

Molly will spend the 2013-2014 academic year researching the performance histories of two of Mikhail Bulgakov's plays, Moliere and The Days of the Turbins, at the Museum at the Moscow Art Theatre. In her spare time she plans on learning some German and learning how to make her own blini!
Congratulations, Molly!

Cori will be teaching Russian, Structure of Modern Russian, and Teaching of Russian, and will be serving as the language coordinator for the department of Slavic languages and literatures. She will also be affiliated with the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center, as well as the European Union Center.

Sarah Valentine became a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature in UC Riverside's Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages in Fall 2010. Her book "Into the Snow", a translation of selected poems by Gennady Aygi from the Russian, is coming out with Wave books in Spring 2011.